error -956 "client not trusted" in NT

For NT it seems you are asked to create a file /etc/hosts.equiv in which you put your trustedusers@hostname yet even if I do this I still get Error -956 when trying to start up the dbaccessdemo7.bat sample database why should you need to do this anyway if you are a member of the informix group? why does the manual only refer to Unix solutions of this problem? -- Ben Clark bc19@cornell.edu